Hashavua Article

At the beginning of the shelter in place, we developed a new tag line: Always Learning. Always Together. As I look back over the last few months, those words ring true. Our students continued to [...]

About six and a half years ago I got a phone call from Melbourne, Australia. It was Rabbi Hahn Tapper, who was on sabbatical with her family. As a preschool parent at the OFJCC where I was a [...]

Boy: I saw the red flashing lights and yelled, “Run, run, the 5-0 are coming. Hurry!” Me: Wait, what’s the 5-0? Boy: It’s a code for the police. Me: Ok, then what happened? Boy: Well, we all ran [...]

Our country is going through a challenging time right now. I realize that we are in the midst of combating a pandemic, a battle against a virus which has profoundly affected our lives. You missed [...]

Every week towards the beginning of our Kabbalat Shabbat service, Rabbi Hahn Tapper instructs us to take a big breath in and hold on to the things from the week that served us and then when we [...]

On Wednesday afternoon, we organized a virtual play date with our incoming Gan students. Morah Jamie taught a song with hand motions, Erin and our Gan teachers lead the game of Amazing Fetch and [...]

Since I entered the field of education over 40 years ago, I have been hearing about the notion of summer educational loss, a notion that looks at learning as some sort of a bank of knowledge that [...]

In A Tale of Two Cities, Charles Dickens writes, “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, [...]

From a very early age, my son loved counting. He’d chalk numbers on the sidewalk, count the cheerios in his bowl, and loved being timed. For him, numbers represented something tangible, a [...]

This Tuesday our school will join together in community and ruach (spirit), over zoom for our annual Lag B’Omer festivities. Lag B’Omer (literally translated as the 33rd day of the Omer) is a [...]